This unit plan uses The Giver as the culminating text.
It also incorporates legal language in the form of Constitutions.
Students will be taught to do Socratic Circles and then learn to create their own questions for the seminars.
This unit focuses a lot on writing; there are tons of Quick Writes, an expository essay, a persuasive essay and a narrative essay.
So I had a lot of handouts for my students including five short stories that are side by side below.